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COMESA 257 (2006) (English): Textiles - Cotton
fibres - Equipment and artificial lighting for
cotton classing rooms
COMESA HARMONISED COMESA/FDHS
STANDARD 257: 2006
Textiles - Cotton fibres - Equipment and
artificial lighting for cotton classing rooms
REFERENCE: FDHS 257: 2006
Foreword
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) was established in 1994 as a regional
economic grouping consisting of 20 member states after signing the co-operation Treaty. In Chapter 15 of
the COMESA Treaty, Member States agreed to co-operate on matters of standardisation and Quality
assurance with the aim of facilitating the faster movement of goods and services within the region so as
to enhance expansion of intra-COMESA trade and industrial expansion.
Co-operation in standardisation is expected to result into having uniformly harmonised standards.
Harmonisation of standards within the region is expected to reduce Technical Barriers to Trade that are
normally encountered when goods and services are exchanged between COMESA Member States due
to differences in technical requirements. Harmonized COMESA Standards are also expected to result into
benefits such as greater industrial productivity and competitiveness, increased agricultural production and
food security, a more rational exploitation of natural resources among others.
COMESA Harmonized Standards are developed by the COMESA experts on standards representing the
National Standards Bodies and other stakeholders within the region and are approved after circulating
Final Draft Harmonized Standards (FDHS) to all member states for at least three months. The assumption
is that all contentious issues would have been resolved during the previous stages or that an international
or regional standard being adopted has been subjected through a development process consistent with
accepted international practice.
COMESA Standards are subject to review, to keep pace with technological advances. Users of the
COMESA Harmonized Standards are therefore expected to ensure that they always have the latest
version of the standards they are implementing.
This COMESA standard is technically identical to ISO 4911:1980- Textiles - Cotton fibres - Equipment
and artificial lighting for cotton classing rooms.
A COMESA Harmonized Standard does not purport to include all necessary provisions of a contract. Users are
responsible for its correct application.
International Standard
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDltATION~ME)KC(YHAPO,WAR OPrAHM3AUMR fl0 CTAHAAPTM3AWWWORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE DE NORMALISATION
Textiles - Cotton fibres - Equipment and artificial
lighting for cotton classing rooms
Texti/es - Fibres de coton - Liquipement et Wairage artificiel des sa/es de classement du coton
First edition - 1980-11-01
UDC 677.21.017.55 : 535.66 : 628.977 Ref. No. ISO 4911~1980( E)
Descriptors : textiles, cotton fibres, lighting equipment, illuminance, specifications, colour, quality, classifying.
Price based on 7 pages
Foreword
ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of
national Standards institutes (ISO member bedies). The work of developing Inter-
national Standards is carried out through ISO technical committees. Every member
body interested in a subject for which a technical committee has been set up has the
right to be represented on that committee. International organizations, governmental
and non-governmental, in liaison with ISO., also take part in the work.
Draft International Standards adopted by the technical committees are circulated to
the member bodies for approval before their acceptance as International Standards by
the ISO Council.
International Standard ISO 4911 was developed by Technical Committee ISO/TC 38,
Texti/es, and was circulated to the member bodies in September 1979.
lt has been approved by the member bodies of the following countries :
Australia Ghana Portugal
Belgium Hungary Romania
Bulgaria India South Africa, Rep. of
Canada Indonesia Spain
China Israel Sweden
Cyprus Japan Switzerland
Czechoslovakia Korea, Rep. of Turkey
Egypt, Arab Rep. of Libyan Arab Jamahiriya USA
Finland New Zealand USSR
France Norway Venezuela
Germany, F. R. Poland Y ugoslavia
No member body expressed disapproval of the document.
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0 kternational Organkation for Standardkation, 1980 0
Printed in Switzerland
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO 49114980 (E)
Textiles - Cotton fibres - Equipment and artificial
lighting for cotton classing rooms
0 lntroduction 1 Scope and field of application
Colour and appearance are criteria of quality establishing the This International Standard specifies requirements for artificial
price and use of cotton. Therefore, the colour quality of the illumination used for judging accurately and uniformly the
light by which cotton is classed is important. Until 1940, prac- colour of cotton. lt also describes a method of test for apprais-
tically all cotton classing was carried out in daylight, usually in ing the colour quality of lamps procured for this purpose.
rooms equipped with special Skylights designed to provide suf-
ficient and uniform lighting on the classing tables. lt includes requirements for colours to be used on Walls and
other surfaces in cotton classing rooms, and for maintaining
Cotton is classed by an Operator’) on the bases of the colour the required level of Performance of the lighting System.
that the Sample and a Standard would have in daylight. In class-
ing rapidly, the Operator refers to physical Standards only
occasionally each day. Therefore it is important that artificial
lighting in a classing room not only provides a constant colour,
but that it makes the cotton appear as nearly as possible as it
2 Definitions
would in daylight, so that the classer tan take full advantage of
training and memory.
2.1 spectral quality (of a light Source) : The
characteristics of a Source determined by its spectral composi-
Daylight with a colour temperature of about 7 500 K has been
tion (radiant energy flux per unit wavelength interval
found, in practise, by many cotton classers [l, 2, 312), and col-
throughout the spectrum).
our matchers in other industries C4, 5, 61, to be the minimum
colour temperature of preferred daylight. In northern latitudes,
this is the colour of a moderately overcast northern sky.
2.2 colour temperature (of a light Source) : The absolute
One of the most important reasons for using artificial lighting temperature of a black body whose chromaticity is the same (or
rather than daylight is that both the colour and amount of nearly so) as that of the light Source.
artificial light tan be maintained more uniform than tan
daylight, and differentes caused by geographical location and
sky conditions are overcome. Additionally, standardized 2.3 index of colour rendering (of a light source) : The
lighting conditions eliminate the need for cotton classers to degree to which the perceived colours of objects illuminated by
make visual and mental adjustments for wide differentes in a given Source conform to those of the same objects
amount and quality of light when they move from one location illuminated by a Standard Source for specified viewing con-
to another. ditions?
1) Henceforth referred to as the “classer”.
2) These figures refer to the bibliographic references which are to be found after the annexes.
3) Established by the general index for interpretation of colour, recommended in 1965 by the International Commission on Illumination 19, 103.
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ISO 4911-1980 (E)
3 Quality sf illumination 3.3 The tolerante for this Standard of illumination shall be
zt 200 K for the colour temperature and, for spectral quality,
3.1 The characteristics of Standard lighting shall be the the spectral distribution shall be as close as possible to that
colour and spectral quality of daylight of a moderately overcast shown in table 1. In no case shall the colour rendering index be
northern sky, as represented by the values given in table 1 and lower than 92.
the curve shown in the figure of spectral energy data for
daylight at 7 500 K [7, 811). NOTE - Since classing offices do not have the facilities and spec-
troradiometric equipment for checking light quality, one must accept
the data submitted from reliable tube manufacturers or have the tubes
tested by an independent or competing Company. National spec-
3.2 Other levels of colour temperature of between 6 500 to troradiometric laboratories may also be used for this purpose, if possi-
8 500 K, may be used to meet local and national conditions by ble. Light quality is a function of manufacturing design specifications.
agreement between the Parties concerned. Combinations of tubes and bulbs should not be used.
Table 1 - Characteristics of colour quality
of illumination for colour gradingl)
450 500 550 600 650
Relative
190 Wavelength spectral
nm energy
180 distribution
400 101,9
170
10 111,9
160 20 112,8
.
30 103,l
150 150 40 121,2
450 133,0
140 1 140
- --E 60 132,4
70 127,3
80 126,8
90 1 l7,8
z&i w7 I j 110 500 116,6
ca l rf \v/ -1 10 113,7
9 lO--O f= \ 411 00 20 108,7
Y.-a s-l wkF l-- 4 90 30 110,4
40 106,3
550 104,9
60 100,0
70 95,6
,601 Y. - 60 80 94,2
50 90 87,0
40
1 50 600 87,2
i 10 86,l
20 8383
130 30 78,7
40 78,4
-. 20 650 74,8
,-
1 10 60 74,3
70 75,4
oF~~1lllIl*l,,,,r,,,lrl,,,r,,,,~ 0
80 71,6
400 450 500 550 600 650 700 90 63,9
700 65,l
Wavelength, nm
1) The data is based on table Ill of the Recommendation,
of August 1965, by the Colorimetry Committee (E-l .3.1) of
Figure - Standard curve’for daylight at 7 500 K CIE.
11 As defined and recommended by the International Commission on Illumination.
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ISO 4911-1980 (EI
4 Quantity of illumination ing tables. Installation requirements shall be based on the pat-
tern of illumination provided by the units, calculated so that the
4.1 The Optimum amount of illumination for cotton classing illumination will be as uniform as possible throughout the class-
is not known. For light sources that include use of fluorescent ing room, Where lighting units are intended to illuminate
tubes, a minimum of 750 21 100 1x1) on tp working surface specific areas such as classing tables, the units should be- at
(from the centre to limits of classing areas) is recommended. least 30 cm longer than the table to ensure adequate illumina-
An illumination above 4 300 IX may be considered “very poor” tion at both ends
[4, 5, 111. Optimum conditions lie somewhere between these
values. Most modern installations are weil above the minimum
6.2 Since classing rooms are often very dusty, units shall be
requirements, usually in the range of 650 to 1 180 IX on installa-
closed. They shall be as light in mass as is practical, and be easy
tion.
to install, inspect and maintain in good Order.
NOTES
6.3 Annex B describes a type of installation widely used in
1 Since operating conditions (ambient temperature, hours of opera- cotton rooms and which camplies with the requirements of this
tion, etc.) affect the light output of fluorescent tubes, it is neither
International Standard.
possible nor practical to set close tolerantes for the amount of light to
be supplied at all times. A minimum of illumination of 750 + 100 IX is
set for installation to insure that such tubes will operate at a range of at
least 430 to 650 IX throughout the latter patt of their useful Iife.
Illumination of more than 1 070 IX may be used initially, but the more 7 Colour of surroundings
light that is used, the more carefully must the geometrical aspects of an
installation be considered in Order to avoid glare and Cross lighting. 7.1 The colour of Walls, ceiling, floor, furniture, lighting unit
interiors and even the cotton itself (if it covers a large area
2 The minimum range for lighting cotton classing rooms is based on
when laid out for classing) has a significant effect on the
data given in annex A. The results show that the absolute level of
lighting in a room, both on the amount of light reflected, and
lighting is not critical; the highest light levels for each sky condition do
not always rate “very good”. Later studies corroborated the opinion on brightness contrasts that may be involved.
that after a minimum level is reached, the quality of the illumination is
more important than quantity in choice of illumination for classing 7.2 Classing rooms shall be painted a neutral colour so that
cotton.
no one chromatic colour will be enhanced or discounted more
3 The limits for values of illumination in which the eye perceives dif- than another. Neutral colours cover a range from white through
ferences in colour are wide. Experience indicates that the minimum a series of greys to black. All greys used in the classing room
values which cotton classers use should be higher [IZ, 131. shall be truly neutral, i.e. they shall show no trace of any hue,
and the lightness of the grey shall depend on the amount of
light coming into the room and reaching the classing surface.
5 Geometry of illumination
NOTE - Greys are specified by degrees of visual graduations con-
The light shall be generally diffuse btit with enough direction to stituting a “scale of grey”, for example, black at N 0, to white at N 10.
allow perception of the depth to which the classer works. lt The neutral N 7,0 is a light grey reflecting about 40 % of the light;
shall be as uniform as possible over the working areas and there N 8,0 (60 % light reflectance) and N 8,5 (68 % reflectance) are lighter
shall be no glare or crosslighting. The brightness contrast of the greys while N 9,5 (90 % reflectance) is a very good white.*)
light Source and its surroundings shall be held at a minimum.
Lamp units equipped with a spectrally neutral diffusing glass,
7.3 For rooms with artificial lighting, such as those lighted
designed not only to diffuse the light but to provide a very low
with wall-to-wall lighting units, the surroundings shall be a very
brightness contrast, are recommended.
light neutral grey, almost white, in Order to conserve the light
and reduce brightness contrasts as much as possible.
6 Pattern for installation
NOTE - If it is desired to mix paint, it is necessary to Start with a good
white and add very small amounts of a light neutral grey until the
6.1 Lighting units shall be designed to SUPPlY the required proper grey is obtained. lt is better to have a paint too light than too
amount and colour of illumination over the sujface of the class- dark.
1) A range in the minimum specification is necessary in Order to insure some measure of uniformity of lighting. The range refers to minima allowable
for measurements at the time of installation for the entire extent of all the classing surfaces in a room.
2) In the example given, the Munsell neutral value scale is used 1141.
ISO 49114980 (E)
7.4 The following colour specifications are recommended for 8 Maintenance of lighting equipment
Walls and equipment in cotton classing rooms :
Lamps and equipment shall be properly maintained to assure
a) walls,‘preferably N 8,5, and not darker than N 8,0 in the correct and uniform lighting. The following maintenance
scale given; routines are recommended :
b) ceilings, white or as nearly white as possible, and in no a) inspect daily to see that all tubes are in good condition;
case darker than N 8,5 in the scale given;
b) replace immediately deficient tubes by tubes of the
.c) floors, preferably about N 7,0 (darker floors may also be
appropriate model;
satisfactory);
c) use a light intensity meter to measure and record the
d) mats, on which the Operator Stands, black (so they may
light intensity throughout the classing areas. Records of this
be used as a background for stapling);
type are helpful in determining the frequency of cleaning
and replacement of tubes;
e) tables for classing, preferably light grey; they may be
black if the Operator desires;
d) regularly clean tube fixtures, and record light levels
f) Papers in which samples may be wrapped, should not before and after cleaning;
cover large areas of the field of view. Fold excess Paper
under the cotton. Cotton is naturally yellowish in hue. lt will e) inspect tube ballasts regularly, at least once a year.
appear more yellow (creamier) against blue Papers, and less (Lew voltage or lack of Ventilation above the lighting units
yellow (greyer) against brown Papers, than when viewed tan Cause ballasts to overheat and significantly affect tube
against a neutral grey or black background. output.)
